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Old 1st Sep 2011, 15:31
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Originally Posted by rudderrudderrat
I think Airbus believed they had designed an aircraft that was so well protected and that the chance of stalling was so remote - that a Stall Warning QRH procedure was deemed not necessary.

With the benefit of hindsight - that has now been fixed.
Actually, I think they (and others) took the position that not only was it not necessary, it was actually prohibited, at least from the flight manual.

CS 25.1585 Operating procedures

(b) Information or procedures not directly
related to airworthiness or not under the control of
the crew, must not be included, nor must any
procedure that is accepted as basic airmanship
.
The idea that you recover from a stall by pushing the nose down was felt, at least by some, to be such basic airmanship that it was actually prohibited by regulation from inclusion. Airbus were not alone in having no such procedures.
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